Hi, took mine out, ordered shorter belt. Have to look at the exhaust manifolds where the air goes too, they will need welding up or blocking off , basically take anything off and back track anything that was connected to it lol block it all off.
i have no egr, air pump, air con, Dec valve, charcoal canister, cat, can't think of anything else right now ! Just tried to get the engine to be an engine !

 

I took mine off too, it had no impact on the decel valve.

 

 

 

 

Not long with a basic tool kit , socket set , like I say just kept taking stuff off and backtracking it all to get pipes as small as poss then blocking them all off . Egr needs a blanking plate putting on on the intake manifold.and exhaust of you take all that off , spare bit of sheet metal , an angle grinder and a drill can whip them bits up quick .